Kevin Smith Talks ‘The 4:30 Movie’s Love Letter To Small-Town Theaters, His “Existential” Streaming Dread And The Journey To Make ‘Mallrats 2’
deadline.comAs Hollywood attempts to keep up with the ever-changing face of streaming, Kevin Smith has gotten into the movie theater business.
The director’s latest film is The 4:30 Movie, which serves as a love letter to small-town cinemas. It came at a time when he was feeling “existential” about being “one more goofy-ass tile to this never-ending wall” of film and television content on streaming platforms. “I know it’s hard out there.
It’s always been hard,” he said. “That’s the one thing I could say. But it’s worth the struggle. It’s worth the fight. Like, it’s worth making that tile, man, because that tile winds up being all the difference in some person’s life you’ll never meet. “I meet people who tell you wonderful things about movies you’ve made years ago that other people lambast, and they’re like: ‘That’s my favorite movie.
That’s the movie that saved my life,'” added Smith. “So it’s always worth the struggle to get there because you know that whatever you make, by process of elimination — and this is not exaggeration — it will be somebody’s favorite movie.
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